Showing posts with label La Cucaracha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Cucaracha. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

La Cucaracha: Less Latinas on TV with "reeely theeek fony axsents."

Rare is the day that I praise La Cucaracha, but the excellent aping of exaggerated dialect here made me laugh.

Though he doesn't come right out and say so, Lalo Alcaraz seems to be talking specifically about Modern Family here. Modern Family's depiction of race has always been somewhat problematic--its stories often condemn stereotyping, but only after they've used stereotypes for laughs--so it's interesting to see a Latino cartoonist take issue with it.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

La Cucaracha: Little TSA Agent Fun Kit

This comic is hilarious because the TSA is teaching your children to stick their fingers up other children's butts. True story.

Monday, June 7, 2010

La Cucaracha: Marmaduke, here I come...

I actually think Marmaduke is better than La Cucaracha. Each comic has a fairly limiting premise--"big dog" in the former, "cockroach that rants about politics" in the latter--that's rarely funny on its own. But despite all of La Cucaracha's various gimmicks (correspondence, politicians monologueing, Boondocks homages, etc.), it doesn't have offer any departure from its basic premise funnier than Marmaduke's more surreal turns.

So to sum up, Marmaduke riding on top of train is funny. An angry panda taking lazy jabs at Marmaduke, not so much.*

*And yes, I realize "an angry panda taking lazy jabs at Marmaduke" is a mere angry panda short of describing this fine blog.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

La Cucaracha: And now for a disjointed political message...

This should probably be the heading of every installment of La Cucaracha.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

La Cucaracha: We're testing dogs who can sniff out anymore "underwear bombers."

Considering that this comic appears to be predicated on the notion that dogs dislike the smell of underwear, it's quite clear that Lalo Alcaraz has never actually met a dog.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

La Cucaracha: The global climate debate continues despite a winter full of strange weather.

This comic is hilarious because the talking cockroach doesn't understand how global warming works.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

La Cucaracha: Jobbs for Dobbs!

This comic is hilarious because Lalo Alcaraz has discovered Photoshop and thinks it makes him clever.

Monday, November 23, 2009

La Cucaracha: Meet MILES STANDISH JR.

La Cucaracha continually proves that glib liberal tropes are every bit as annoying as glib conservative tropes.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

La Cucaracha: I'm Mel Gregvin, and I'm the strips new manager. We're gonna fix up this dump of a comic right quick.

Considering that it would be virtually impossible to make La Cucaracha any worse, there's a distinct possibility that a real Mel Gregvin could actually marginally improve the strip. Gregvin isn't real, of course, being instead a cheap caricature of what Lalo Alcaraz imagines a Nebraskan to be, so La Cucaracha will continue to suck just as much as it always has.

Friday, October 2, 2009

La Cucaracha: Yo, Kanye, who invited you to our comic strip?!

This comic is hilarious because La Cucaracha actually somehow is worse than Marmaduke.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

La Cucaracha: The Beandocks

Speaking of homages, here's La Cucaracha helpfully showing us what the The Boondocks would have been like had it sucked as much as La Cucaracha.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

La Cucaracha: You are gonna dance.

Child abuse: Still hilarious when it happens to a celebrity.

Someone should tell Lalo Alcaraz that being faux-transgressive is not the same thing as being funny.*

*Someone should also tell this to Seth MacFarlane.

Friday, July 31, 2009

La Cucaracha: Lemme see you dance.

Child abuse is hilarious when it happens to a celebrity.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

La Cucaracha: You expect me to write articles in 144 characters or less, Mr. Jefe?

Look, if you're going to insist on making lame jokes about Twitter, you should at least get the details right.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

La Cucaracha: What are you lookin' at!?

A computer screen, actually.

Can we be done with the newspaper jokes now? Please?